Orange buff clay full of dark grits but without mica; fine creamy slip now largely flaked away and with it most of the decoration. Red glaze for bands at base of neck, above and below handle-zone and for a pair of bands on the lower wall. The handles glazed outside, with broad tails depending from the roots. A wavy line around the neck and another in the handle-zone; on the shoulder, S-loops. East Greek.

The decoration is traditional; cf. the 8th and 7th century hydriai, Délos, XV, pl. 4, 9-11, especially pl. 4, 11. See also for the shape of the body but with a more spreading neck, a hydria from the Samian Heraion, Ath. Mitt., LXXIV, 1959, Beil. 47, 1; context of ca. 710-640/630 B.C. The biconical shape of 1580, with nearly straight neck and plain rolled rim seems later than most, not far from the late archaic Cypriot white ware hydriai, as S.C.E., II, pl. 85 (Marion Tomb 95-15), though with more modest side handles.